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ABOUT ME

Biography

Merlin Crossley is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at UNSW and Professor of Molecular Biology. He has also worked or studied at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, Harvard and Sydney. He has been recognized by numerous awards, including a Rhodes Scholarship and the Australian Academy of Science's Gottschalk Medal. He has made significant contributions to academic administration, serving as Dean at UNSW since 2010, and...view more

ABOUT ME

Biography

Merlin Crossley is Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at UNSW and Professor of Molecular Biology. He has also worked or studied at the Universities of Melbourne, Oxford, Harvard and Sydney. He has been recognized by numerous awards, including a Rhodes Scholarship and the Australian Academy of Science's Gottschalk Medal. He has made significant contributions to academic administration, serving as Dean at UNSW since 2010, and previously having been Acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research at the University of Sydney from 2006 to 2008.

Education

BSc Hons (Melb) 1986

DPhil (Oxon) 1990

RESEARCH

Research Goals

Fundamental mechanisms of gene regulation

Epigenetics

Artificial DNA-binding proteins

Blood development

Haemophilia

Sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia

Obesity and diabetes

Research in Detail

We are interested in understanding the fundamental molecular mechanisms by which genes are controlled. Ultimately we hope to treat chronic diseases, such as sickle cell anaemia or diabetes, by turning on beneficial genes or repressing harmful genes.

Research Grants

National Health and Medical Research Council Project APP1098391 Editing beneficial single nucleotide polymorphisms into the genome: A new approach to genetic disease M.Crossley, 2016-8, $646,979

National Health and Medical Research Council Project APP1025877 Transcriptional regulation of globin genes M. Crossley and R. Pearson, 2012-14, $636,325

National Health and Medical Research Council Project APP1025873 Transcriptional control of megakaryopoiesis M. Crossley, K. Ravid, T. Gonda and R. Pearson, 2012-14, $651,010

National Health and Medical Research Council Project APP1009172 Identifying regulators of the DNA damage response and tumourigenesis using C.elegans H. Nicholas and M. Crossley, 2011-13, $496,706

National Health and Medical Research Council Project Grant ID632877 The transcriptional control of adipogenesis M.Crossley and K. Bell-Anderson, 2010-12, $535,125

Australian Research Council Discovery Project DP180103785 One code to rule them all: synthesis of the transcription factor and histone code J.P.Mackay, M. Crossley, K.K.J. Low and K.G.R. Quinlan, 2018-20, $598,198